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Monthly Archives: February 2013

ours is red. I’ll get you a picture soon. Right now it’s dark out and we’re in Yankton, SD getting ready for a FEAST show tomorrow.

We are watching “the Princess Bride” on TV. And I’m typing with terrible posture. So much for mindfulness. I haven’t watched much TV or lived on a bus with 13 people so I’m feeling very distractable right now.

Juliette de Bairacli Levy says about cayenne, “A tonic for all organs of the body, including the heart. Said to increase fertility and defer senility.”

we have passed the cross-quarters. a little bit closer to spring. I’ve been married six months. it’s been a very sweet six months.

this afternoon in the garden I saw the sprouts of parsley, mallow, motherwort, horehound and hollyhock. And little grasses.

Now would be a good time to plant out a cold-frame with frost hardy plants: kale, lettuce, parsley, cilantro, etc. We’ll see if I can pull it off.

I’ve been haphazardly putting rosehips in the ground along with honey locust seeds and hawthorn berries. If I’m lucky I’ll end up with a forest at the edge of my garden. Right now it’s a field of alfalfa and bindweed. But I shouldn’t complain – they both have medicinal properties. In her book “Common Herbs for Natural Health,” Juliette de Bairacli Levy says of bindweed, “Uses internal: as a tonic and cleanser of the blood. Also helpful in dropsy. A fertility herb. Dose: Three or four flowers eaten in a salad twice a day. Or a brew from the twisting stems. Of the brew, take a tablespoon morning and night.”

This is from yesterday’s writing playing with nouns that are also verbs: Inspired by vernous (Wooldridge – “Foolsgold”) :A kiss
and a lurch
a nibble and a fragment.
To collapse,
and to swallow.
To mirror
and to play.
Take a number
take a cow
take the dust
and take the glitter.
Over, under, hither, yon.
Before
sprinkle
between
bicycle and question.
Walk, marble, shutter,
sting, thunder, hammer.
A jungle to jangle.
Whisper, wonder.